Demidov Contract Predictions & Habsland Awards

We didn't really get to say like, hey, what's the what's the plan? What's the goal? So beyond the trivial stuff of like make hockey team better, what are the most important decisions you think Kent Hughes needs to make? And it doesn't, sorry, I'll let you take it like go micro right away in terms of like, hey, it's this specific thing.

Or you can just stretch it out and have it be a bit more broad in terms of like mindset and general trajectory.

So you can go specific or you can kind of still say like strategically, generally, here's where they should be, what they should be doing.

Okay, so I'd be happy to go general if the most important thing in the world wasn't micro, and that's the Demidov contract, which is just so darn important.

And it's not important through the lens of like, uh-oh, we have to make sure to sign him before something bad happens and he goes elsewhere.

I don't think we're in danger of that.

It's just within the scope of what's important to this team, a top six winger with the skill set that he has at 20 years old, who's already looked this good, Just lock him up, man.

Eight years.

And that's really the one kind of do it before this amount of time has elapsed, whatever.

We're a couple months away from no longer being allowed to sign a guy to eight years.

I didn't double check it, but my memory tells me it's like September.

So you have until September to sign a guy to eight years, and then the maximum becomes seven.

So I think from Dmitrov's perspective, from the Montreal Canadiens perspective, his agent, everybody just wants an eight-year deal.

And let's just get it done.

And I think it'll probably be similar to Hudson.

Don't you think?

Well, I think that was the question I had for you over under it's the Hudson deal.

I think it's over because

one year has elapsed.

Yeah,

I guess to an extent, right?

Not at the same level of player, though.

It's true.

That's it.

That's it.